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vemy··on Ask HN: Paid alternatives to WhatsApp
Telegram doesn't use encryption by default.
vemy··on Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?
There is a way: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
vemy··on Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
Only a matter of time before they start injecting ads into Whatsapp. They are owned by Facebook after all.
vemy··on Wire open-sourced
Signal also doesn't have a true desktop application. I don't want to install Chrome just to use a messenger.
vemy··on Google to Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers
> Pajeet

I am not sure what you are trying to imply.

vemy··on Google to Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers
This could make it easier and cheaper to develop higher quality applications for Android.
vemy··on A Plan to Flood San Francisco with News on Homelessness
I sincerely hope you are not being serious.
vemy··on The top Google result for 'blockchain' is a scam ad
It is still there: http://i.imgur.com/UwacpLS.png.

Removing it after it has been on the front page of HN is straightforward. We can't say how long it was there or how many users have been duped by this already. The case might be similar for other search terms.

vemy··on Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
UdeM is pretty great actually: https://admission.umontreal.ca/en/student-info/costs-financi...
vemy··on The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press
Juts like CS schools, I think the quality could be dependent on the specific school they graduated from.
vemy··on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay
Even in the Bay Area, I think this track would be an extreme exception rather than the rule. And the Bay area itself is somewhat of an exception. Vast majority of programmers in this country live outside the Bay Area. Another consideration is that 150K in the Bay Area hardly goes as far as 150K in other locations.
vemy··on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay
Almost all doctors will make much more than the vast majority programmers. I think you are underestimating how much doctors earn.
vemy··on A majority of millennials now reject capitalism
They do fine in many places. Sasktel (Canada) is pretty good compared to what is available in some other provinces.
vemy··on A majority of millennials now reject capitalism
The iPhone is still made by workers somewhere.
vemy··on Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
That value is in Japanese Yen (JPY), not Chinese Yuan (CNY).
vemy··on The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change
Looking through their other posts, I don't think so.
vemy··on Domino's: Pizza and Payments
The word you are looking for is piqued.
vemy··on Signal Desktop beta now publicly available
A Chrome Extension is not a Desktop application.
vemy··on We’re in a brave, new post open source world
This is why using GPL is important.
vemy··on Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version
> And unlike high incarceration rates and tax loopholes, startups are on the whole good.

That's a highly debatable assertion. I really wish he would explain why he thinks startups are "good".

vemy··on Announcing The Fog Creek Fellowship
Yes. Making it an every week thing would make it boring pretty fast. It might be more useful if done a few weeks every year or so.
vemy··on Google Domains
GMail was a completely different ballgame. This just looks like your generic domain registrar. There are thousands of them already.
vemy··on Google Domains
How about Search?
vemy··on Taking down ads and putting up art in San Francisco
Your volunteer sign up form is broken. Might wanna fix that.
vemy··on Starbucks starts rolling out wireless phone chargers nationwide
I guess the new iPhone might have Powermat support.
vemy··on OS X Yosemite
A lot of people would probably have a different view on this.
vemy··on OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
My Windows PC never crashed like my Macbook does.
vemy··on As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
How so?
vemy··on Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-destructing private links
How is Firefox non-free now?